NMLP P-038375 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
The Orators: An English Study
W.H. Auden · Faber & Faber, London · 1932
No book-club issue is documented for the 1932 Faber printing. The reprint traps here are editions rather than club copies. Faber's revised second edition of 1934 is offered by date-blind sellers as a 'first edition' — this is the most common error in the market and is settled by the title verso, not the date. Then Faber's third edition of 1966, the Random House first separate American edition of 1967, and Faber's modern paperback reissue (ISBN 9780571283538). A 1932 title page alone is insufficient; the impression statement on the verso governs.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038375 for "The Orators: An English Study" by W.H. Auden (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038375, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).